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IRVARD  UNIVERSITY  was  founded  in  1636,  and  it  was  granted  a  charter  in  1650. 
The  principal  seat  of  the  University  is  at  Cambridge,  close  to  Boston  and  reached  by 
any  Cambridge  street  car,  marked  Harvard  Square.  The  Medical  School,  Denial 
School  and  the  School  of  Veterinary  Medicine  are  located  in  Boston,  "to  secure  those  advan- 
tages for  clii  ical  instruction  and  for  the  study  of  piactical  anatomy  which  are  found  only  in 
large  cities."  The  Bussey  Institution  was  established  in  1870  at  Jamaica  Plain,  near  Fort  Hills 
station,  for  instruction  in  practical  agriculture,  and  connected  with  it  is  the  Arnold  Arboretum, 
for  instruction  in  tree  culture,  the  whole  forming  a  magnificent  park,  open  to  the  public. 

A  young  minister,  John  Harvard,  died  at  Charlestown  in  1638  and  lefc  to  the  college  ju^t 
forming  his  library  of  some  three  hundred  volumns  and  one  half  his  estate,  about  f"jco.  This 
sum  exceeded  the  aggregate  of  all  other  donations,  and  in  grateful  recognition  the  college  was 
named  Harvard.  Though  fostered  by  the  State,  it  has  been  from  the  first  a  private,  incorpor- 
ated institution,  supported  in  the  main  by  students'  fees  and  secondly  by  the  income  of 
permanent  funds  given  by  benevolent  individuals.  To-day  its  government  is  practically  the 
same  as  it  was  in  1650,  consisting  of  the  corporation  called  "The  President  and  Fellows  of 
Harvard  College  "  and  the  Board  of  32  Overseers.  The  President  and  Fellows  fill  the  vacancies 
in  the  corporation;  the  Overseers  are  elected  by  the  alumni  of  the  University.  It  has  ex- 
perienced a  remarkable  growth  during  the  last  dozen  years  especially,  and  it  numbers  at 
present  337  officers  of  instruction  and  3,290  students. 

Cambridge  Common  was  the  place  of  arms  of  the  settlers  of  1631,  who  selected  it  for  their 
strong  fortress  and  entrenched  camp.  This  ground  was  also  the  muster  field  of  the  American 
armv  of  the  Revolution,  and  here  the  flag  of  thirteen  stripes  was  fir^t  unfurled.  Crcssir.g  the 
Common  diagonally  we  come  upon  the  Washington  Elm,  in  whose  branches  Gen.  Washington 
caused  a  platform  to  be  built  in  order  to  survey  with  his  glass  the  country  round,  while  he  xiad 
his  camp  here. 

Elmiuood — the  Lowell  Homestead  was  probably  built  as  early  as  1760,  and  in  it  Thomas 
Oliver,  the  last  of  the  English  Lieutenant-Governors,  surrendered  to  the  people.  It  was  long 
the  home  of  James  Russell  Lowell,  the  poet,  wdio  wrote  here  "  The  Biglow  Papers. "  Wash- 
ington's Headquarters,  or  Longfellow  Hjmc,  is  Cambridge's  especial  pride.  It  was  built  in 
1739  by  Colonel  John  Vassal.  Washington  established  here  his  headquarters  in  1775  and  re- 
mained for  eight  months.  Edward  Everett  and  Joseph  E.  Worcester,  the  lexigrapher,  at  one 
time  dwelt  here.  In  1837  Henry  M.  Longfellow  came  to  live  in  the  house,  and  in  1843  he 
purchased  it.  Cambridge  is  rich  in  old  residences  and  in  reminiscences  of  historic  persons 
and  men  famed  in  literature  and  the  sciences. 


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